Abstract:

College transition programs offer early access to the collegiate experience, aid in the adjustment of students transitioning to college, and facilitate positive adjustments for Black women in their early college years. Less is known about whether Black women identify these programs as having a lasting influence on their college degree programs and careers. This critical oral history study of 24 Black alumnae contemplates their recollections of how college transition programs influenced their collegiate journeys within predominantly White and historically Black institutions. The Black alumnae emphasized the long-term importance of asset-based community cultural wealth approaches in transition programs that offered a head start to college. The alumnae noted that the transition programs provided forms of navigational, aspirational, and social capital. At PWIs, transition programs emphasized academic skills and social networks. At HBCUs, transition programs offered inclusion in the familial ethos of those campuses. In both institutional types, the women enjoyed gaining confidence and access to a hidden curriculum, which they retained throughout college and into their careers and lives.

摘要：

大学过渡计划提供早期获得大学经历的机会，帮助学生适应大学过渡，并促进黑人女性在大学早期的积极调整。关于黑人女性是否认为这些项目对她们的大学学位课程和职业产生持久影响，人们知之甚少。这项针对 24 名黑人校友的重要口述历史研究探讨了他们对大学过渡计划如何影响他们在白人占主导地位和历史上黑人院校中的大学旅程的回忆。黑人女校友强调了基于资产的社区文化财富方法在过渡计划中的长期重要性，这些计划为进入大学提供了良好的开端。校友们指出，过渡计划提供了导航、抱负和社会资本的形式。在 PWI，过渡计划强调学术技能和社交网络。在 HBCU，过渡计划让学生融入这些校园的家庭氛围。在这两种类型的机构中，女性都获得了自信并获得了隐藏课程的机会，她们在整个大学期间以及职业和生活中都保留了这些课程。